Re: [freenet-devl] freegle.com: major overhaul

[Ian Clarke]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 12:35:13PM -0400, Michael Carmack wrote:
> The original statement that raised concern was:
> 
> "If it is possible to ask not to see the porn, then the only people 
> who see it, will be the people who ask to see it."
> 
> It's hard to say which way this was intended. The first part of
> the statement implies that people would have to explicitly specify 
> when they _didn't_ want to see the porn, the second part implied
> the second implies that they would have to explicitly ask if they
> _did_ want to see it. The former implies censorship by request,
> the latter censorship by default.

Neither is censorship!  Censorship is when you prevent people from
obtaining information that they might want to obtain, not when you help
them filter out stuff they are not interested in.  Do you consider your
spam filter to be censorship?

Ian.

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